This past spring I designed a CD for Bonnie Raitt. My initial focus was to find photos of Bonnie that weren't common (since we didn't have the budget for a photo shoot), nor used in any of her other previous albums. Her label, Capitol Records sent tons of photos and assorted contact sheets for me to review. After a long and arduous day, I found some amazing black and white photos from the 70s, (that we eventually used on the interior with the liner notes) but the cover photo was the one that was obsessed over the most by Bonnie and our internal music client at Starbucks. Bonnie ended up choosing the cover photo, shown above, which shows her iconic red hair that obviously wouldn't pop on any black and white photo. Bonnie was actively involved in the process, and was great to work with!
There are a few cover ALTs on my Cargo site.
The disc was a 16-song collection of Bonnie's music as part of their Opus Collection series. This limited-run CD was only available at Starbucks stores for the month of April (US only).
